Pigeons and How to Keep Them - Softcover

This vintage book contains a complete guide to keeping pigeons, with information on selection, breeding, feeding, housing, training, common ailments and diseases, and more. Written in clear, plain language and full of useful tips and simple instructions, this timeless handbook will be of utility to anyone with a practical interest in keeping pigeons, and is not to be missed by collectors of related literature. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing “Pigeons and How to Keep Them” now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on pigeons.

This early work on Pigeon Keeping is an engrossing read for any pigeon enthusiast of historian of the hobby, but also contains much information that is still pertinent and practical today. Extensively illustrated with explanatory diagrams and text photographs, forming a complete how-to guide. Contents Include: The Loft and Aviary, Management-Breeding, Rearing, Feeding, Selection-Crossing versus In-Breeding, The Moult, Judging, Showing, Preparation, The English Carrier, The Dragoon, Barb, and Antwerp, The Pouter, The Norwich Cropper, And The Pigmy Pouter, The Frill Family, Show Homer, Exhibition Homer and Genuine Flying Homer, The Tumbler Family, Other Varieties, Sporting Pigeons, Squab-Rearing for Table Purposes, Diseases, and Pigeons As Messengers. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.